| Webster's Online Dictionary |
Date "HERRING-POND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: "He'll plague you now he's come over the herring-pond." - Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering. chap. xxxiv. 2: (The). The British Channel; the Atlantic, which separates America from the British Isles; the sea between Australasia and the United Kingdom, are all so called. 3: Herring-pond. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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